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of Mr Rais Bin Saniman, and there are reasons to believe that the facts established by the
investigation committee differ materially from the version given by the British authorities in
support of this request for extradition.
The latter is essentially directed at apprehending a witness, but when one knows that several
witnesses have been murdered in the present case, one understands the interest not to agree a
request for extradition. Its inevitable result would be to put the life of Mr Rais Bin Saniman in
jeopardy,
(C)
From the available information, the report of the investigation committee does not mention any
responsibility of Mr Rais Bin Saniman, who was not employed by the Hong Kong subsidiary of
the Malaysian State Bank, Bumipurra Malaysia Finance Limited ("BMFL"), but was an employee
of the Malaysian State Bank itself, Bank Bumibutra Malaysia Berhad ("BBMB") where he had
a position as executive in the international department.
Mr Rais Bin Saniman never was a director or executive of BMFL; he only had the title of
"alternate director", which corresponds to sthat of a deputy member of a Board of Directors who
attends the meetings of the Board and replaces the normal director in the latter's absence]; now,
Mr Rais Bin Saniman was almost never asked to effectively seat in his capacity as director at the
Board of BMFL, except on the occasion of two Board meetings in the past at which no decision
relating to the facts in question was taken.
If Mr Rais Bin Saniman attended in some other occasions the board meetings of BMFL, this was
not in his capacity as deputy, but only when this was necessary to ensure a good connection with
BBMB; he never had any direct responsibility within BMFL; his relations with this subsidiary
were limited to that of an executive dealing, within the international department of BBMB, with
a foreign subsidiary.